The Best Event Awards aare looking for the events that marked 2017, but also the best event venues that will be awarded within the new Best Location Awards category

The 13thBest Event Awards, the annual initiative that recognises and promotes excellence in events and live communication, are open for entries. For the first time ever, it will include the Best Location Awards, to celebrate one of the fundamental ingredients for the success of an event, venues that attract event organizers and provide for the best experience possible.

Both initiatives will take place within Bea World Festival, the essential meeting place and networking event for the international event community.

As in previous years, nominees contesting for the renowned golden elephant awards will have the opportunity to showcase their projects live in front of a prestigious jury composed of top corporate event professionals plus senior representatives of national event agencies associations.

“The jury will judge each entry on a number of criteria”, explains the president of the Jury Gerd De Bruycker, Marketing Director Northern Europe at Cisco Systems. “Creativity, which is not just an idea, but can also be an innovative approach to a specific aspect of the event; ROI and effectiveness, as ROI is key in today’s marketing world and, as corporate event marketers, we need to prove the ROI of our events; and finally the communication strategies, that should be effective in addressing and communicating to the target audience.”